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Originally Posted by buggyone
Wrong - cows, sheep, and pigs are farm animals raised to be human food. Alligators, for the most part, are not domesticated farm animals but wild animals trying to survive.
The local restaurants selling alligator meat do that mainly as a tourist thing.
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Let's see.........
You think we eat only domesticated farm animals?
People also eat Ostrich and make clothing accessories from their hides.
The same for deer, elk, moose, caribou, bear and buffalo.
We also eat, and use their feathers for decoration, ducks, geese, and a variety of other waterfowl as well as dove and quail.
Ah, you say, but these are all game animals.
In Florida there is a hunting season and hunting permits are required for taking alligators. It's not all about nuisance gators.
Similarly, in Louisiana there is a hunting season for commercial hunters who can get permits to kill and market over a hundred gators apiece.
Here in Florida hunters who take game animals are not permitted to sell their harvest for food in restaurants. Gator is an exception. This restriction does not apply everywhere.
That's why I could eat reindeer sausage in Alaska, and venison at a mountain lodge in Oregon.